Learning Action Plans in a Virtual Environment

Abstract

Our view is that facilitating human-centred design in the adaptive virtual interface is about recognizing intentionality of the user. The operator has a purposeful motivation in undertaking activity in the virtual environment. This can range across a number of task-focused activities, including mission rehearsal in a simulator, where the intentions relate to the achievement of mission goals to the purely recreational exploration of a cyberspace. All of these use the computer as a transformative technology for immersion. The cockpit and computer screens become the experience of flying; the gloves and the screen put the surgeon’s hand in the digital patient of an anatomy trainer. Further, the ..